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briefless

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briefless [ˈbriːflɪs]
adj
(Law) (said of a barrister) without clients
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Adj.1.briefless - (of lawyers or barristers) lacking clients
patronless, unpatronised, unpatronized - having little patronage or few clients; "a restaurant unpatronized by the elite"


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What, I asked in my own mind, can cause this obsequiousness on the part of Miss Toady; has Briefless got a county court, or has his wife had a fortune left her?
He relates to us all the various steps by which his office-boy rose to be the "ruler of the queen's navee," and explains to us how the briefless barrister managed to become a great and good judge, "ready to try this breach of promise of marriage.
She half closed her eyes, and indulged herself in a fascinating picture of a briefless barrister lodged in a garret, writing immortal novels by the light of a farthing dip.
 
 
 
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